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...whiff of manure. The cacophony of grunting, gobbling and bleating. But the livestock at Lazy S Farms are no ordinary farm animals. Rooting about in the fields are Red Wattle pigs, a breed thought to have been imported from New Caledonia in the 1700s and practically extinct until a wild herd surfaced in Texas. The turkeys are Standard American Bronzes, which were Thanksgiving fare for more than a century but have now been reduced to some 950 breeder birds. The lambs are Katahdins, a subspecies developed in Maine and named for the state's highest peak...
...authors make an impressively strong case. Chang, a former Red Guard and "barefoot doctor" now married to Halliday, a British historian, is known for her 1991 memoir Wild Swans, one of the biggest-selling books of all time (10 million copies, 30 languages). Since its publication Chang has done little except delve into the life of the man who devastated her family in Wild Swans. (Her parents, dedicated Communists, were denounced as class traitors during Mao's Cultural Revolution; her father was tortured, driven insane and worked to death in a labor camp.) Chang's obsession is evident. About...
...village of Rampasasa, Viktor Jurubu harbors no such doubts. He has the floor again and is recounting the story of how Paju, a famous warrior, ran into one of the "normal" people in the woods one day while out hunting. "This beautiful lady lit a fire and cooked the wild boar Paju had killed," Jurubu says. "She wanted to marry him and knew she could tempt him with the taste of cooked meat. He did like the taste, so he agreed to marry her and come out of Liang Bua with the rest of the tribe, founding a new village...
...village. During the gun battle, they'd killed at least two villagers. But worse was to come. Two kilometers away, on a ridge on the other side of the valley, about 40 tribesmen from Sabari village were taking cover for the night in a series of bunkers hidden among wild olives and holly trees. They were guarding their homes, as they did every night, from their rivals in Bhalkhel, with whom they had been feuding for months over rights to the area's forests...
...extra service--a minimum ante of 18 months--they would be willing to offer if they could get their first branch choice. After receiving all bids, West Point decided to award first choice to anyone who had offered two extra years or more of service. The program was a wild success: average students got into competitive branches like aviation, and West Point won the Army an additional 51.5 combined years of mandatory officer service...